Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, defended her staff on Wednesday after a screenshot of legislative text went viral for including the words “Claude responded.” The natural assumption online was that the bill was written using AI, but Luna denied it. Kind of. The text in question turned out to be a bill summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and it seems pretty clear that Anthropic’s Claude was used, with everything just copied and pasted from the chatbot: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) Used Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot to Draft Amendment to Defense Bill pic.twitter.com/Ls9oK26M8W — NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) June 24, 2026 At first, Luna responded to the viral tweet with what seemed like an admission that her staff uses it to “correct” legislation, though it wasn’t clear how extensive these corrections might be.
“Yeah my staff used AI to correct a draft text and didn’t edit,” tweeted Luna. “Not a shocker. Most staff use it. I have told them to make sure they are double checking and more thorough. What dork planted this story? Btw love Claude but Grok is way more savage.”
But that tweet was deleted. Seemingly, because Luna had admitted that AI was used to write the actual text of the bill. Luna then sent another tweet with different wording: “Yeah my staff used AI to spell/grammar check the amendment SUMMARY, not the actual amendment text itself. Not a shocker. Most staff use it. I have told them to make sure they are double checking and more thorough. What dork planted this story? Btw love Claude but Grok is way more savage.” The follow-up tweet, as you can see, made it more explicit that Claude was only used to correct a summary of the amendment, not the amendment itself. But it defies common sense that people who use AI for summaries wouldn’t also use AI chatbots to write bills.
